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status quo warrior en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, neologism) A person who zealously promotes or defends socially static or regressive policies; the antithesis of social justice warrior.
    • The SJW approach seems to have inspired a reaction from an equally impassioned group, the so-called “Status Quo Warriors” or SQWs [...] 2019, Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems, Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, Hate Begets Hate; Violence Begets Violence, page 159:
    • Scratch a critic of social justice warriors and a status quo warrior bleeds. 2020, John Faithful Hamer, Social Distancing: Poems and Aphorisms, Likeville Books:

Forms

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status quo warriors Number=Plur lexicographic
SQW alternative, initialism lexicographic

Antonyms

social justice warrior · SJW

Relateds

reactionary · purity spiral · virtue signalling